Equitable Development. The Ford Foundation’s efforts to promote equitable development focus on urbanization and land markets; equitable access to infrastructure and services; natural resource governance; and the links between equity and environmental sustainability.

Within the theme Equitable Development, the sub-theme “Natural Resources and Climate Change” seeks to ensure that indigenous and other communities have secure access to and control over natural resources and can benefit from them fully. The Foundation supports efforts to reduce deforestation and human rights violations linked to natural resource extraction; to ensure that oil, gas, and mineral producers respect the rights of communities; and to ensure that climate change policies benefit rural communities.

The theme Equitable Development operates in the USA and the following countries and regions: Brazil, China, Eastern Africa, Indonesia, Mexico and Central America, Middle East and North Africa, Southern Africa, and West Africa.